Does A Banana Peel Actually Make You Slip? | MythBusters

Two myths, both ancient, both absurd, both completely unresolved until now — can you actually slip on a banana peel, and is double dipping at a party genuinely disgusting or just socially annoying — and Adam and Jamie attack both with the full MythBusters treatment, which means friction coefficients for the banana peel, animal birth lubricant for comparison purposes, bacterial culture plates for the dip bowl, and Jamie walking a slippery obstacle course in work boots with the expression of a man who deeply regrets his career choices, all in the name of finding out whether two of the oldest gags in comedy history have any basis in reality whatsoever — the results are funnier than the myths and more surprising than you'd expect.

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Using science as their weapon and curiosity as their fuel, Hollywood special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman spent 14 seasons and 296 episodes testing the world's most popular myths, urban legends, and movie moments. From the Diet Coke & Mentos explosion to surviving an underwater car escape — if it can be tested, they'll test it.

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